BreachBytes

Breach Security Labs released a report containing some interesting statistics about web attacks in 2007. The entire report can be found in the Breach Security Network website (unfortunately, free registration is required). Dark Reading also has a summary of the report, although they felt 67% didn’t sound as good as 70% so they rounded up in the article title.

This report backs up what we have been reporting on in BreachBytes: more and more hacks and breaches are motivated by money. Andy weighed in on this trend with his excellent write up on the rise of organized crime in cybersecurity. I wrote about the subject most recently in my post on the motivations of modern hackers. Danny Quist from Offensive Computing noted in a comment that I should have had money as the #1 motivation and not #2. He was right.

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